Finndlin

This serie started really badly : a boring and very slow beginning, with often annoying and not very interesting characters. After four episodes I gave up.
But having nothing better to do I recently decided to get back to it ... and I could not leave the screen before the last episode.

Here the story began at last : two great actresses (Hiroki Hasegawa seemed bland and inexperienced compared to those two amazing ladies), a rich plot full of twists and secondary roles properly interpreted.
What started as a big cliché surfing on the "cougar" wave ended up as a fantastic drama.
A nice change from all the highschool stuff!

I am very doubtful about this dorama and I can't really say wether I liked it or not as it contains as many positive and negative events in it.

Let's first point out the good parts : the intrigue. It is of course absolutely not plausible, but it doesn't matter it's not necessarily supposed to be! The atmosphere was great and the music very well chosen. I really enjoyed watching them solving the issues. On my opinion Matsuda Shota played his part nicely as well as most of the "organization" characters.
Unfortunately the rest of the cast was grotesque, with the exasperating Toda Erika as the "naive" girl (I'd call her an idiot, as she keeps on falling for the same tricks and can't seem to be able to see when she is clearly duped), or most of the other players who were really poor actors. Sometimes the story is also very corny, and some happenings are ridiculous (c'mon, nobody's explaining his evil plot just before the end :p).

I'm also disappointed with the last episode, as they could have made it twice shorter, I didn't wish to see a long summary of the previous events...

Anyway I didn't hate it and will probably watch the second season as this dorama has excellent potential!

I really don't get why this dorama should be THE one which is praised amongst all the j-series. The plot is a bit weak, it lacks emotion, it's rarely funny and it gets corny and boring at some point.

If the male cast is quite fine (Akira is on my opinion the most interesting character and Yamashita Tomohisa's doing a good job playing a weirdo) I didn't love so much the girls. I didn't quite like Nobuta, she is just dull and despite the new haircut I don't see so much changes in her that would make her more popular. As for Toda Erika... she's just plain bad, I think she cannot act I've seen her in three different doramas and it doesn't get better.

Hmm. But there are also good sides of course, for example I really enjoyed the "ghost" episode, and the connection which is gradually growing between Akira and Shuji, or what's behind Shuji's poser's "guise".

To conclude I'd say it's average and I could recommend much better doramas than this one.

I did it, I watched the infamous "Gokusen" which is pretty much supposed to be one of the funniest jdrama.

First of all if you're looking for something realistic and plausible you can spare you the trouble of watching it. You're not going to believe one second that the story could have actually really happened. For example you can clearly notice that Nakama Yukie can't fight, which makes all those tough yakusa combats positively ridiculous!

As for the general plot, the idea of a the granddaughter yakusa being a teacher was rather nice and caused many good jokes (sometimes a bit repetitive..)

Actor were just plain, and most of them weren't natural. It was very disturbing during the emotional sequence, the result was gross. Oh and I absolutely hated the moral lessons which were inappropriate for this kind of entertainment.

I'd say it's a fair comedy, distracting and very forgettable ;)